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For Dummies – a similar series of how-to books from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Découvertes Gallimard, a similar series in French of introductory books, noted for its fine illustration. Some titles are translated in other languages. FabJob – a similar series of how-to-books for starting a business or dream career
Mark Glickman created the Glicko rating system in 1995 as an improvement on the Elo rating system. [1]Both the Glicko and Glicko-2 rating systems are under public domain and have been implemented on game servers online like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, [2] Dota 2, [3] Guild Wars 2, [4] Splatoon 2, [5] Lichess and chess.com.
A sovereign credit rating is the credit rating of a sovereign entity, such as a national government. The sovereign credit rating indicates the risk level of the investing environment of a country and is used by investors when looking to invest in particular jurisdictions, and also takes into account political risk.
Alternatively, short sellers simply deciding to cut their losses and get out (rather than lacking collateral funds to meet their margin) can cause a squeeze. Short squeezes can also occur when the demand from short sellers outweighs the supply of shares to borrow, which results in the failure of borrow requests from prime brokers. This ...
Once a book makes it onto the list it is heavily marketed as a "best-seller", purchased by readers who seek out best-sellers, given preferential treatment by retailers, online and offline, who create special best-seller categories including special in-store placement and price discounts, and is carried by retailers that generally do not carry ...
A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation.
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is a 2018 self-help book by the Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson.It provides life advice through essays in abstract ethical principles, psychology, mythology, religion, and personal anecdotes.
Direct selling is a business model that involves a party buying products from a parent organization and selling them directly to customers. It can take the form of either single-level marketing (in which a direct seller makes money purely from sales) and multi-level marketing (in which the direct seller may earn money from both direct sales to customers and by sponsoring new direct sellers and ...